poems for mothers day

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ~Salman Rushdie



The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge



A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw



A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953



For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition. ~Tammy Bloemzaken



The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ~Thomas Wolfe



Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. LeGuin



Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. ~Nicholas Negroponte



I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain



Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. ~Tim McMahon



There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other. ~Blaise Pascal



If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown



As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. ~Erma Bombeck



Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ~Romans 13:10



Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive. ~Author Unknown



Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw



We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. ~Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of Civilization



Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. ~William Ernest Hocking



Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging. ~Jesse Shera, 1977



The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz